8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [yuLy 
me to recognize the plant. It is a variety of R. Nutkana, with 
twigs and floriferous branchlets unarmed (in my two specimens), 
leaflets pubescent on the principal veins, simple teeth, one-flow- 
ered inflorescence, hispid-glandular pedicels, receptacles beset 
with numerous glandular hairs, and sepals glandular on the 
back. The author says that the single character of hispid- 
glandular receptacles permits his new species to be distinguished 
from all other American types. However, several other Ameri- 
can species may have their receptacles as hispid as that of 2. 
Macdougali. lf Mr. Holzinger had consulted the BoTaNICAL 
GazETTE of 1894 he would have found that Mr. Merritt Lyndon , 
Fernald had described (p. 335) a variety of R. Nutkana, under 
the name of hispida, whose receptacles are strongly hispid- 
glandular. This variety /ispida was established upon specimens 
received by Watson from Rock Creek, Montana, and through C. V. 
Piper from Pullman, Washington. In 1885 Watson in his mono- 
graph alluded to the Rock Creek plant, and was inclined to 
consider it a variety of R. Nutkana. Does the variety hispida 
have leaflets glandular beneath and glandular-compound teeth ? 
I have reason to suppose that it has. In 1890, Mr. Edward L. 
Greene sent me some undetermined specimens which had been 
collected at Lake Pend d’Oreille, which proved to be a variety 
of R. Nutkana probably identical with the var. hispida, The 
leaves have become almost glabrous, but are glandular beneath, 
with glandular-compound teeth, and the pedicels, receptacles 
and sepals are densely hispid-glandular. In my Prodromus of 
1876 I have given a history of R. Nutkana, which at that time 
was poorly known. Afterwards, the rich material which I have 
brought together, and the study which I have made of the plant 
in cultivation, make me somewhat acquainted with the different 
variations of this type. They are numerous, and can be grouped 
in several series, which are parallel with the series of variations 
produced by other species of the same section. These series 
Jornica, and R. gymnocarpa, cited by Mr. Holzinger in his “ Report on a collection of 
plants made by J. H. Sandberg and assistants in northern Idaho in the year 1892,” in 
Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium 3: 223. 1895. 
